Download Internet Explorer 9 RC
The wait is over.
Microsoft has just uploaded the RC build to company servers and download links are already floating all over the web.
What’s new?
Ability to filter ActiveX controls
Performance improvements
Standards improvements
Tracking protection
Minor UI changes
95/100 on ACID3
Update
Build Number: 9.00.8080.16413
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It also has new HTML features. The x64 version is much slower than the x86 version, artificial benchmark wise.
Fixed, thank you.
Please stop referring to Acid which is a Google test if you are going to compare when there are real test suites from W3C. Acid and htmltest aren’t really tests they just pick fragments of ready hand half-ready technologies,
Just now I installed this RC build. So far it is running smooth. Finally – RC release came which means no more improvements only bigger bug fixes, Cool. IE 9 RTM is very close then.
IE 9 is definitely one among those good browsers , no one can deny now.
I agree! IE9 is definitely quite good!
It’s brought itself upto where other browsers were a year ago.
IE9 is not a patch on where Opera 11 is today.
downloading it now baby
You are totally wrong! Acid3 and HTML5Test are REAL tests.
Acid3 is NOT a Google test. Acid3 is a Web Standards Project test. Read the details at http://www.acidtests.org and http://webstandards.org
HTML5Test is NOT a Google test. HTML5Test is created by Niels Leenheer and developed at GitHub. Read the details at the bottom of http://www.html5test.com , https://github.com/NielsLeenheer/html5test , and http://rakaz.nl
Thumbs up to someone who knows what there talking about!
I found out yesterday that IE9 RC doesn’t work at publishing posts on Facebook. I can’t publish feeds to mine or other people’s walls (although I can still share comments, links, etc).
Only for you : )
More like a beta than RC, can’t run Peacekeeper (string error), cooliris crash at first start, well Sunspider is maybe top score but the rest of bencmarks get rubbish results.
Come on!
Why are you not thinking that PeaceKeeper and Cooliris has to test their product for IE 9.
IE 9 benchmarks are not that bad to call rubbish.
Best aplication ever. Greetings and thanks to author/s from Poland. :D
What with passwords? (Opera)
(sorry for my poor english)
At least it doesn’t look like complete crap UI wise.
Has problems downloading, initiate a download & it just sits there twiddling its thumbs.
Have to view downloads Ctrl J to start the download
Look at PC Mag’s review: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369163,00.asp
Chrome scores highest in Googles V8 Benchmark
Firefox scores highest in Mozilla Benchmark
IE9 scores highest in Microsoft’s Benchmark
Opera comes out second in all the benchmarks that are tuned to a particular browsers strength. Which is WHY Opera feels the fastest in day to day use rather than synthetic benchmarks created purely for marketing reasons. You would have to be a total idiot to fall for these “benchmarks”, and I’m glad that Opera haven’t fallen into the trap of dedicating resources to making a benchmark that makes Opera look great.
Tracking Protection Lists do not block anything for me, I have written a test case in the Quero forum, can anybody confirm this? http://www.quero.at/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1044&#p2320